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Tri-C Resources Inc. president Michael S. “Scott” Cone and his wife, Dru, have endowed a four-year petroleum engineering scholarship at Texas A&M University.
The Dru R. ’80 and M. Scott Cone ’82 Scholarship will be awarded for the first time this fall to a high-achieving petroleum...

Digi International today announced a partnership with GroundedPower, a leading provider of interactive software for energy efficiency and smart grid solutions. Under the partnership GroundedPower’s Interactive Customer Engagement System (iCES) has been fully integrated with the Digi X-Grid to connect consumers’ home energy devices.

(Stanford University) The more researchers, the better. With funding from the National Science Foundation the Stanford "computational photography"team is providing programmable open-source cameras to other universities.

Amazon.com Inc. said Thursday it has struck a deal that will give it exclusive rights to sell some of the great works of 20th century literature in electronic form.An agreement with The Wylie Agency gives Amazon exclusive rights for two years to sell e-book versions of novels including Saul...

DisplaySearch, the worldwide leader in display market research, IFA, the global trade show for consumer electronics and home appliances announced the preliminary conference agenda for its upcoming IFA DisplaySearch Business Conference.

(University of Pennsylvania) A University of Pennsylvania collaboration has created a simple and inexpensive method to rapidly grow centimeter-scale membranes of binary nanocrystal superlattices, or BNSLs, by crystallizing a mixture of nanocrystals on a liquid surface.

VIA Technologies announced device development kits for the VIA AMOS-5000 series, facilitating a more rational design infrastructure for a broad range of application-specific and fanless Em-ITX-based devices.

Nokia Corp. said Thursday that second-quarter net profit fell 40 percent to euro227 million ($290 million) as the world's largest mobile phone maker lost market share and sales remained flat. Analysts, however, noted its sales of smart phones were better than expected.The profit was down from a...

On 21 July 2010, Slovenia deposited its instrument of accession to the OECD Convention, thereby becoming a Member of the Organisation. Slovenia was invited by OECD countries to open negotiations for membership in May 2007.

Foxconn Technology Group, which makes iPhones and other gadgets for global technology companies, is seeking to charge its customers more to partly cover wage increases at its mammoth manufacturing compound in southern China.The extent of price hikes will differ according to products, C.L....

Baidu Inc., which operates China's most popular Internet search engine, said Thursday its second-quarter profit more than doubled as its advertising customer base grew and profit margins improved.Baidu earned 837.4 million yuan ($123.5 million), or 2.40 yuan (35 cents) per share, up from 383.3...